NEW YORK – The Yankees have a couple of days left on the schedule, but the ones that will ultimately determine how this season is judged won’t come until next week. Everything that transpires between now and then is simply preparation for the American League Wild Card Series. With their

NEW YORK -- The lights will burn for another postseason series at Yankee Stadium, though it’s not the one they would have preferred. For a second consecutive year, the Bronx Bombers will play host to the American League Wild Card Series, which opens Tuesday. The final games of the regular

NEW YORK – The afternoon began with CC Sabathia at the center of the infield, examining the plaque that will hang in Monument Park. Its text contained no mention of an obscure fact: that he’d surrendered the most recent inside-the-park home run at Yankee Stadium. The next nine innings changed

NEW YORK – One year later, they’re right back at it. The Yankees are preparing to host the Red Sox for another American League Wild Card Series, renewing baseball’s most enduring rivalry in a best-of-three showdown. Tuesday’s Game 1 delivers a rematch of the pairing that took place in the

NEW YORK – CC Sabathia first visited Yankee Stadium before the paint was dry, carrying the expectation of delivering a long-awaited championship across his broad shoulders. He loved the building immediately, and now he will always be part of it. Sabathia’s No. 52 was retired by the Yankees on Friday,

NEW YORK – Tucked deep inside a hooded sweatshirt, Cam Schlittler moved through the Yankees’ clubhouse early on Thursday, a video tablet anchored to his right hand. He wore the steely expression of someone focused on the future, not quite ready to celebrate the end of a Cy Young Award-caliber

NEW YORK – When the Yankees promoted George Lombard Jr. to the big leagues in August, talent evaluators pointed to the rookie’s background as a soccer standout, noting that he seemed to move in ways others simply don’t. They didn’t know how right they were.

NEW YORK – Clarke Schmidt appears to be out of the Yankees’ postseason plans. The right-hander was placed on the 15-day injured list on Thursday, retroactive to Monday, with right biceps neuritis. Schmidt has been shut down from throwing and would not be eligible to return before a potential American

NEW YORK – CC Sabathia will enter Yankee Stadium’s Monument Park one day earlier than originally scheduled, with the Orioles and Yankees having postponed Saturday’s contest due to a forecasted nor’easter. The clubs are now scheduled to play a single-admission doubleheader on Friday, with first pitch set for 4:05 p.m.

NEW YORK – It seemed like a good guess, one of those prognostications that get tossed out in the sun-splashed days of Spring Training, when every player arrives in the best shape of his life and the standings show everyone tied for first place. Ben Rice would finish the year

NEW YORK – It has been four days since Aaron Judge said it was “definitely the plan” to return in time for the postseason. While the Yankees are planning as though he might not be available, the captain’s mindset has not shifted. Judge reiterated on Wednesday that he intends to

NEW YORK – After Giancarlo Stanton missed part of the 2024 season due to injury, all seemed forgiven when the Yankees slugger returned as a playoff force, blasting seven October homers while claiming MVP honors in the American League Championship Series. Stanton will try to follow that same playbook this

NEW YORK – The news about Aaron Judge’s return to the injured list was still fresh, having been announced less than an hour earlier, and already Cody Bellinger was envisioning how the Yankees could succeed in the postseason without their captain. Unfortunately for Judge and his club, they’ve had plenty

NEW YORK -- It was always going to be a “tall order,” as manager Aaron Boone said, for the Yankees to avoid hosting an American League East clinch. That didn’t make the reality any less sour in the home clubhouse late on Tuesday, knowing that the Rays were gleefully popping

NEW YORK -- The Yankees entered the day intending to keep the Rays from celebrating an American League East title as long as possible. Carlos Rodón did his part and then some. Rodón looked playoff ready with eight scoreless innings, and Cody Bellinger belted a two-run homer as the Yankees

NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge has a “moderate grade” right calf strain and is likely to miss at least the beginning of the Yankees’ postseason, according to manager Aaron Boone, who said the club does not plan to have their captain active for a potential American League Wild Card Series

NEW YORK -- It has felt inevitable that the American League East race would be decided this week in the Bronx. The Rays have led the Majors’ most competitive division for most of the season, and they haven’t ceded the top spot in the standings since reclaiming first place on

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PHOENIX – Clarke Schmidt was preparing to enter in the sixth inning on Sunday, but the Yankees' right-hander cut short his warmups after experiencing what he described as a “cramping” sensation localized near his right biceps. “Nothing structural, it was more precautionary,” Schmidt said after the club’s 8-4 loss to

PHOENIX – The math is only becoming more difficult for the Yankees, who had hoped to close their gap in the American League East ahead of this week’s upcoming four-game showdown against the Rays. Instead, they face the likelihood that Tampa Bay will soon celebrate a division crown in the

PHOENIX – This one won’t hurt for the next 25 years, but it might sting for the next eight games. On an evening when the D-backs turned back the clock to honor a World Series celebration that took place on this same diamond, it became the setting for another Yankees

PHOENIX – On the list of Aaron Judge’s preferred activities, fielding questions about an ongoing injury issue probably ranks beneath an emergency trip to the dentist. The Yankees’ captain expressed frustration with his return to the 10-day injured list on Saturday. And while he remained vague about the severity of

PHOENIX -- Aaron Judge is back on the injured list, meaning the Yankees must navigate the end of the regular season without their captain -- and potentially part of the playoffs. Judge was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right calf strain on Saturday (retroactive to Thursday), the

PHOENIX -- Gerrit Cole had never surrendered seven home runs over a two-start span before his most recent outings, and with the playoffs around the corner, there was concern that the Yankees’ right-hander might have hit a wall. Most of that came from outside the clubhouse. Yankees manager Aaron Boone

PHOENIX -- Cam Schlittler sported a significant bruise on his right hamstring as he moved through the visiting clubhouse at Chase Field on Friday afternoon. It was a souvenir from his most recent start, which ended after the Mets’ Bo Bichette connected on a 111.5 mph comebacker. That ball dented